Bruno Wicker
Bruno Wicker is a French CNRS researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences
in Marseille. In the next two years (2008 to 2010) he will be working in the Integrative Neurosciences Laboratory of the University of
Buenos Aires, headed by Prof. Mariano Sigman.
He was trained as a biologist and neuroscientist and completed his PhD in 2001 on the brain basis of gaze processing under the
supervision of Prof. Jean Decety (University of Chicago, USA) and
Prof. David Perrett (University of St-Andrews, Scotland) . Thereafter in
Marseille and Parma (with Prof. G. Rizzolatti,
Prof. V. Gallese and Prof. C. Keysers), he examined the role of the
mirror neuron system in understanding the emotions and sensations of others.
In the last five years he focused his research on the brain basis of social and emotional cognition, using neuroimaging techniques such as
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), both in typical and autistic spectrum didorder populations.
Contact : Bruno
Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman is the director of the LNI Contact : Mariano
Pablo Barttfeld
Pablo Barttfeld got an MsC in Biology at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. He has worked as an undergraduate in community ecology, studying the agricultural impact on native forest. Now he is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Mariano Sigman. His research focuses on conscious and unconscious forms of abstract rule learning, and in perceptual categorization of stimuli with emotional content. Contact : Pablo
Elisabetta Monfardini
Elisa is a PhD student investigating the cerebral and behavioural correlates of social learning in primates, both in monkeys and humans. Contact : Elisa
Sébastien Tassy
Dr Tassy is a PhD student investigating the cerebral and behavioural correlates of moral cognition. Contact : Sébastien
Elisa Schneider
Elisa is a student investigating behavioural correlates of emotional influences on decision making. Contact : Elisa
Yamil Vidal Dos Santos
Yamil is graduated in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina). He has been working as a degree teacher in basic processes such as memory, attention, perception, reasoning and problem solving. Contact : Yamil
Fernanda Velázquez
Fernanda is graduated in philosophy (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina). As an undergraduate student, she worked on the relation between rationality and emotion, and its link with decision making. Now, she is a PhD student interested in mental attribution to others, its neural correlates, and the relation between social and emotional cognition. Contact : Fernanda